This award is the European Commission's initiative to recognise and celebrate outstanding projects that have used their results to provide value for society.

The prize will be awarded to the entry that best addresses the following cumulative criteria:

1. From results to societal benefits – proven linkage between the FP-funded project result(s), uptake of it and creation or societal benefits. Applicants will need to demonstrate that they have directly exploited the R&I result or have played an active role in the uptake of the result by third parties. The direct and indirect exploitation of R&I results can take many forms among which are: influencing policy change, commercialization of a service or product, creating a start-up/spin-off, creation of a new standard, etc. The R&I results should benefit/address a well-defined population/target audience

The prize will be awarded to the entry that best addresses the following cumulative criteria:

From results to societal benefits: Applicants will need to demonstrate that they have directly exploited the R&I result or have played an active role in the uptake of the result by third parties. The direct and indirect exploitation of R&I results can take many forms among which are: influencing policy change, commercialization of a service or product, creating a start-up/spin-off, creation of a new standard, etc. The R&I results should benefit/address a well-defined population/target audience

Impact – potential longer-term impact for the society, economy, and/or policymaking. Applicants must demonstrate the contribution of their reuse-uptake of research results in solving a societal challenge and generating economic, societal, and environmental or policy impact.

Duration:

Not applicable

Assignment:

Five awards of 10.000 EUR each

Requirements:

The contest is open to all legal entities (i.e. natural or legal persons, including international organisations) or groups of legal entities from FP7 or Horizon 2020 projects that have ended. Natural persons such as ERC principal investigators or MSCA fellows and legal entities principally created by past beneficiaries for the exploitation of the project results, are also eligible.

Participants that have already received an EU or Euratom prize cannot receive a second prize for the same activities.

Observations:

Applications must be submitted by the (lead) participant via the Funding and Tenders Portal using the Participant Identification Code (PIC).

Joint applications by a group of participants are admitted. In this case, the participants must appoint a 'lead participant' to represent them towards the Commission

The page-limit for your prize application (Part B) is: 6 pages.

Participants will have to submit an annex consisting of a letter of support from at least one user or user community, stating the importance of the research work and how it was used to create concrete benefits for the specific user community. The user should not be an academic organization. The letter of support must be uploaded as a separate annex and does not count towards the page-limit for your prize application. This is a compulsory requirement.

More information:

If there are more than 30 eligible applications, there will be a pre-selection phase to select the best 30 applications to pass to jury review. Otherwise, all applications will pass directly to jury review.

The pre-selection panel and jury usually have a different composition, but jury members may participate in the pre-selection panel.

The jury evaluation is planned to take place between April 2020 and July 2020.

If there are more than 30 eligible applications, there will be a pre-selection phase to select the best 30 applications to pass to jury review. Otherwise, all applications will pass directly to jury review.The jury evaluation is planned to take place between April 2020 and July 2020.

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